Wash-boiler



(No Model.)

- W. B. GLUNY.

WASH BOILER. No. 339,858. Patented Apr.'13. 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Erica.

\VILLIAM B. OLUNY, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

WASH-BOILER.

CPECIFICA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,858, dated April13, 1886.

Serial No. 163,105.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM B. CLUNY, of Fall River, in the county ofBristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulAttachment for IVash-Boilers, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specificatiou.

My invention relates to the draining of clothing after it has beenboiled in the washboiler; and the object of my invention is to provide aconvenient draining attachment to receive the wet clothing and to allowthe water from the same to drain into the boiler.

To the above purpose my invention consists in a draining'receptaclehaving a perforated double bottom, and of such form and size as to fitinto the boiler when not in use, and to rest upon the boiler so as topermit the water from the wet clothing to drain back into the boiler, ashereinafter described.

In the said drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a wash-boiler withmy attachment set thereon in operative position. Fig. 2 is an endelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the boilerwith theattachment nested therein. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section ofthe same on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3 and upon an enlarged scale.

In the drawings, A designates a waslrboiler, which may be of the usualor any preferred form.

B designates the drainer, which is of the same general form as theboiler, but smaller and more shallow. The walls of the drainer B arestraight and have their lower edges cut squarely off and lying in ahorizontal plane. The bottom I) of the drainer is concave, and isperforated, as shown at b in Figs. 3 and 4. Above the perforated bottomis placed a netting, bflthe bottom and netting being either permanentlyor removably secured in the drainer. Upon one side the drainer is cutaway, as at b so as to allow the ready reception of the clothing intothe drainer.

WVhen the boiler and drainer are not in use, the drainer is nestedwithin the boiler, as shown in Figs. 8 and 4, and when the clothes havebeen boiled the drainer is set upon the boiler, as shown in Figs. 1 and2. are taken out of the boiler and are placed in the drainer, the waterfrom the clothes running through the netting I)" and the perforations1)" of bottom I) back into the boiler. Thus all dripping of water uponthe stove or floor is avoided, and one less tub is required in the wash.

It will be seen that by my construction in having the walls of thedrainer B extend below the perforated double bottom I) I)", which formsthe compartment, as shown in Fig. 4, the said bottom is raised clearabove the surface upon which the drainer may rest, by virtue of thelower edges of the walls of the drainer forming the restiugpoints. Thebottom is thus protected and lasts longer than if the drainer resteddirectly upon its perforated bottom.

I am aware ol'the heretofore use with washboilers of the removableclothes chambers provided with perforated sides and perforated doublebottoms, for the purpose of compelling the I'ree'circulatiou of the hotwater and suspended steam through and about the clothing in thechambers; also, I am aware of the heretofore use with wash-boilers oftwo or more receptacles having perforated single bottoms designed toseparate different kinds of clothing when boiling them, and subsequcntlyto superpose one receptacle above the other to drain it. Therefore I donot claim the above-alluded-to devices heretofore used.

My device has nothing to do with the boiling process of the clothing.Its use arises subsequently to the boiling, and is designed toefficiently drain the water from the wet clothing.

I preferably construct my drainer inthe proportions shown, so that itwill easily accommodate itself to any of the ordinary washboilers, inwhich it may be readily inserted when not in use, and across which itmay be rested when desired to be used as a drainer.

My device affords a simple, neat, and handy drainer, well adapted forits purpose of de- Sign.

The clothes 1 Having thus described my invention, I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Paten t The draining attachment forwash-boilers, consisting in the drainer B, having the walls 3 straightand cut away at I), and with their lower edges in a horizontal plane,the fiat gauze partition I)", the convex bottom I), perforated at b,-thewalls of said drainer extending below said bottom on all sidesandforming the resting-surface substantially as de-v I scribed.

WILLIAM B. OLUNY.

Witnesses:

' M. F. BLIGH,

J. A. MILLER, Jr.

